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TIL: The longest war in America History lasted 46 years an was against the Apache Nation

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NXvxQ TIL about Doggerland, which was an area in northern Europe once home to fertile lands and hunter-gatherers, and is now submerged beneath the North Sea due to rising sea levels and a tsunami
0dRDR TIL of a 2009 Duke University study which showed that hyenas outperformed primates in cooperative problem solving tests with some subjects teaching inexperienced partners how to perform some tricks.
OE0X TIL Zaftig is a Yiddish word, derived from German, that means “slightly fat in an attractive way”
grKX TIL Spongebob was right, there is a Leif Erikson Day. And it’s today. Happy Leif Erikson Day, one and all.
awvwb TIL in 2017, a man stopped to be interviewed on the street by a local news reporter about public transit issues, only to be identified by viewers as a suspect who attempted to rob three banks shortly before. This ultimately led to his identification and arrest.